Party Pooper

A town in Spain has the problem a lot of towns with public parks have -- people who walk their dogs there but never bother to clean up after Fido's final act in the kibble-processing process.

So they recruited some volunteers to hang out at the park. When a volunteer sees a dog owner not bright or considerate enough to clean up after said animal, he or she starts a casual conversation with the owner, in which the name of the dog and its breed, if unknown, is learned. That information is reported to town officials, who look at the pet registry to find out where the dog and the offending owner live. The aforementioned digestive end products are then boxed up in a special container featuring the town seal and mailed to the owner, to dispose of as he or she sees fit.

The town, according to the story, has seen a 70 percent drop in complaints about dog owners who won't clean up after their animals.

Considering the metaphorical load of waste product that comes to us via a variety of governmental agencies at many levels, it's surprising that it took someone this long to come up with this plan.

The town's name is Brunete, Spain, and there is a blonde joke in this somewhere but I can't quite fit the puzzle together.

(H/T Threedonia, who have a much better headline)